(CNN) — John Larroquette is very clear that he only agreed to reprise his role as attorney Dan Fielding in the “Night Court” reboot because of star and executive producer, Melissa Rauch.
Larroquette told CNN his “ego” initially made him uninterested in returning to his “Night Court” character. The original sitcom ran from 1984 to 1992.
“I thought, I can’t do the comedy that I did in the eighties, and I’m not speaking of story content so much as I love physical comedy, and I would jump over tables and tie myself in knots and fall and, you know, just stuff that I can’t do anymore without a surgeon nearby,” he said. “The idea of being compared to myself when I was 35 years old, I don’t know if anybody really likes to have that shoved in their face and on television, it’s impossible to hide from that.”
Larroquette chatted with Rauch …